Guess I'll chip in with my $0.02. I've had Comcast cable Internet and TV now for almost 5 years and have had minimal problems. I've only had to deal with one difficult customer service person when there was an outage. Overall I think I've had 3 or 4 outages. I like their web mail interface (it's what I'm using to write this email). If we experience an outage, I call custumer service and bitch and they give me a day's credit on my bill (or more if the outage is longer). We pay around $100 per month for Internet and mid-level TV (no pay-per-view and it's associated cable box). I have a Smoothwall firewall and have noticed that the public IP rarely changes (very handy for setting up VPN tunnels). It just recently changed, but I noticed that they also finally changed router names from AT&T names to Comcast (traceroute is your friend!). I haven't tried running my own mail server or web server, but have contemplated running a web server via dyndns. -- ---- ------ Todd Young -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Jordan Peacock" <hewhocutsdown at gmail.com> > Hello all > > We're moving house soon and will be looking for an ISP at our new > place. Currently my wife's parents have Frontier, but most of these > come best in packages (phone/cable/internet) and we won't be using the > first two at all. > > We're looking for a high-speed solution, and I'd rather not have to > deal with ISP-imposed handicaps on use. (what programs are/aren't > allowed, etc) > > What would you recommend? For features? For price? Both (ideally)? > What has been your personal experience? > > Looking forward to hearing your responses. > > -jordan > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list